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    The surname Tyer

    A surname, carried by 1,351 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T600

    Tyer: #19,885 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tyer #19,885, 1,351 people Tyer: #19,885 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tyer #19,885, 1,351 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tyer is more common than 87.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,351 people named Tyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,353.

    #19,885
    rank among US surnames
    1,351
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #18,748)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,878Jacobowitz1,352228,362
    #19,885Farabaugh1,351228,531

    Who is named Tyer

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    82% of people named Tyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 10.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 10.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tyer

    Tyer has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tyer?
    1,351 people in the United States had the surname Tyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. It ranked 19,885th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tyer?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Tyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Tyer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,353 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,351 in 2010, down 0.1%.